Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Trending quotes

“We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,—our retrospection will be all to the future.”

“You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.”

“My valour is certainly going! — it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!”

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”

“Never say more than is necessary.”

“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”

“The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.”

“The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”

“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”

“Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”

“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”

“While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.”

“The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!”

“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”

“I leave my character behind me.”

“It was an amiable weakness.”

“An apothecary should never be out of spirits.”

“I loved him for himself alone.”